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Caio Graco Rodrigues Leandro Roza
I am a community ecologist focused on species and functional biogeography. I developed frameworks to study the effects of environmental variation in community composition and how species commonness drive community variation at a regional level in different spatial scales.
I am currently looking for a postdoctoral position that allows me to go deeper into the spatial distribution of species and their traits.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Limnology
Rio de Janeiro State University
Visiting student: University of Helsinki (Jan-Dec 2019)
Rio de Janeiro, BR
2020 - 2016
- Thesis: From biotic interactions to biogeography: Niche and neutral dynamics at multiple scales.
- Supervisor: Dr. Marcelo Manzi Marinho
- Co-supervisor: Dr. Janne Soininen
Master Candidate, Plant Biology
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Rio de Janeiro, BR
2016 - 2014
- Dissertation: Phytoplankton diversity of the upper, medium and lower course of Piabanha river, RJ.
- Supervisor: Dr. Marcelo Manzi Marinho
- Co-supervisor: Dr. Patricia Domingos
B.S., Biology with emphasis in Ecology
Universidade do Grande Rio
Rio de Janeiro, BR
2013 - 2010
- Monograph: Characterization of the phytoplankton community from Piabanha River, RJ
- Supervisor: Dr. Patricia Domingos
Teaching Experience
Biostatistics
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Rio de Janeiro, BR
2021 - 2016
- Lectured
- postgraduate level
- Begginers level
Functional diversity
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Rio de Janeiro, BR
2020 - 2020
- Lectured
- postgraduate level
- The course covers both theoretical and methodological approachs on the study of functional diversity
Statistical Computing in R
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Rio de Janeiro, BR
2019 - 2017
- Lectured
- postgraduate level
- Begginers level
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Downstream transport processes modulate the effects of environmental heterogeneity on riverine phytoplankton
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- Published
- Science of the Total environment (Volume 703, February 2020)
- Caio Graco-Roza, Juliana B Santos, Vera L Huszar, Patricia Domingos, Janne Soininen, Marcelo Manzi Marinho
Clumpy coexistence in phytoplankton: The role of functional similarity in community assembly
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- Preprint. Under Review (Second Round)
- BioRxiv (Reviewed by PCI Ecology)
- Caio Graco-Roza, Angel M Segura, Carla Kruk, Patricia Domingos, Janne Soininen, Marcelo Manzi Marinho
Functional rather than taxonomic diversity reveals the changes in phytoplankton community of a large dammed river
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- Ecological Indicators
- Caio Graco-Roza, Janne Soininen, Gilsineia Correa, Felipe S Pacheco, Marcela Miranda, Patricia Domingos, Marcelo M Marinho
Distance decay 2.0: a global study of taxonomic and functional turnover across taxa
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- Submitted
- Ecography
- Caio Graco-Roza, Janne Soininen, Sonja Aarnio, Nerea Abrego, Alicia Acosta, Janne Alahuhta, Claudia Angiolini, Fabio Attorre, Yoni Belmaker, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Helge Bruelheide, Marta Carboni, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Morten Christensen, Gilsineia Correa, Iwona Dembicz, J¸rgen Dengler, Patricia Domingos, Tibor Eros, Eduardo Leite Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter Alan Friedlander, Johanna Gammal, Anna Gavioli, Martin Gossner, Itai Granot, Camilla Gustafsson, Brian Hayden, Siwen He, Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, John Hunter, Vera Lucia de Moraes Huszar, Jiri Dolezal, Jenny Jyrk‰nkallio-Mikkola, Kimmo Kahilainen, Julia Kemppinen, Lukasz Kozub, Michele Kulbicki, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Angel Lopez-Urrutia, Miska Luoto, Marcelo Manzi Marinho, Jˆrg M¸ller, Luciana da Silva Menezes, Marco Milardi, Marcela Miranda, Gleyci Moser, Pekka Niittynen, Alf Norkko, Arkadiusz Nowak, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Otso Ovaskainen, Virpi Pajunen, FÈlix Picazo, Juan Antonio Campos Prieto, Ivan Rodil, Peter le Roux, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Shira SalingrÈ, Michele de Sanctis, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Angel M. Segura, Felipe Pacheco Siqueira, Anette Teittinen, Kimmo T. Tolonen, Leena Virta, Beixin Wang, Jianjun Wang, Wolfgang Weisser, Yuan Xu & Jani Heino
The role of commonness and rarity to the contribution of species to functional diversity across spatial scales.
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- In prep.
- Caio Graco-Roza et al.
Scientists’ warning on incomprehensible science
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- Submitted
- Global challenges
- Stefano Mammola, William J. Ripple, Pedro Cardoso, Dan Chamberlain, Andrea Di Cesare, Gianluca Corno, Ester M. Eckert, Diego Fontaneto, Volker Grimm, Alejandro Martínez1, Caio Graco-Roza, Masahiro Ryo, Raffaella Sabatino, Maria Belen Sathicq, Laura N. H. Verbrugge, Zoë A. Doubleday
Biotic homogenization by human impact in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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- In prep.
- Mark Wong, Caio Graco-Roza, Janne Soininen, Florian Altermatt, Martin Gossner
Efficiency of the Floc & Sink technique for controlling cyanobacterial blooms in a tropical reservoir under a seasonal variation
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- Water Research
- Erick Drummond, Vivian Balthazar Gonçalves Leite, Natália Pessoa Noyma, Leonardo de Magalhães, Caio Graco-Roza, Vera Lúcia Huzar, Miquel Lürling, Marcelo Manzi Marinho
The role of rarity and commoness on the distance decay of similarity.
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- Caio Graco-Roza, Guillaume Latombe, Cang Hui, Angel M. Segura, Vera Huszar, Marcelo Manzi, Janne Soininen
Grants
Ella and Georg Erhnrooth Fountadion
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2021 - 2020
- Postdoctoral research
- 1 year
Coordination for higher Education Staff Development (CAPES)
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2020 - 2017
- Doctorate
- 3 years
Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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2019 - 2018
- Doctoral internships abroad
- 1 year
Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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2017 - 2016
- Doctorate
- 1 year
Coordination for higher Education Staff Development (CAPES)
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2016 - 2014
- Master
- 2 years
The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
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2013 - 2011
- Undergratuate internship
- 2 years